Panti Bliss
We Three Kings FIRED! Replaced with We Four Queens this Christmas.
As much as Panti Bliss jokes about it, she is indeed a national (f–king) treasure in her native Ireland. Always a popular drag queen in Dublin, but that all changed on 1 February 2014. Panti a gay rights activist gave a Noble Call speech at the Abbey Theatre in response to the events surrounding a controversy about…
An Audience with the Queen of Ireland : Panti Bliss
Rory O’Neill aka Panti Bliss has been Ireland’s’ foremost drag queen for over twenty years now, but it wasn’t until one cold February night in 2014 at the Abbey Theatre in Dublin that the world sat up and took notice of her. In one of the most impassioned moving speeches about the reality of homophobia…
An Audience with The Queen of Ireland
Until 4 years ago the very existence of Panto Bliss aka Rory O’Neill was a well-kept secret within the confines of Dublin’s LGBT community. That is until the night of his Noble Call in the city’s Abbey Theater. The ‘Call’ is an old Irish custom borrowed from musicians, who after a night of playing, leave the…
Watch the Irish ‘Riot’
If you are still under the (very) misguided impression that Irish entertainment starts and ends with the ubiquitous Michael Flatley then you need to make speedy tracks to Dublin this summer where they are literally having a Riot on stage. Check out the video below and if that doesn’t have you reaching for Aer Lingus…
